Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-11-25
KANSAS NEWS

Thirteen stone dressers employed on
government work, at Fort Riley, struck
for higher wages last week. They
claimed to have made only 81 per week.
The city council Of Washington, Kan
sas, has granted the Washington electric
light company the exclusive privilege or
operating electric ehts in that city for
twenty-one years.
J. R. DAVIS, one Of the three prisoners
who escaped from the Syracuse jail last
week, told a farmer near Syracuse q I
plausible story and succeeded In getting
horse ard saddle from him.
Mrs. Christ. BrunsWig, a Riley county
| lady, who has been blind for several
years, recently had an operation for
cataract performed in Junction City,
which completely restored her sight
Greeley County Tribune: The Hor-
ace people have located a well on the
/ White Woman at the nearest point to
the city, and viii issue $4,000 in bonds
to dig the well and supply the city
with water.
The Lawrence Vinegar works used
/ 600 bushels Of apples in 1886 for
making cider, and now the machinery is
! being changed for the manufacture Of
vinegar and will turn out twenty five
barrels per day
| Junction City Union: John P.
! Swenson, recently, lost his barn, two
/ horses, a lot of agricultural imL iements
and all his fodder, by fire. The boys
were milking and a COW kicked over the
lantern, which exploded.
Arkansas City is to have a paper mill,
Peabody has a silk plant; Dodge City is
/ the location of an extensive wooden mill;
Paola has a glass tactory-dittO Fort
/ Scott; Leroy Is soon TO have a sewing
machine factory; EldOradO a packing
! house, besides numerous other plants Ia
ali the cities Of any size.
Stockton NelUS. A few days ago
while Chas. Welsh OF Greenfield town
ship was digging sand, the bank caved
In on him and completely covered him,
breaking his right leg below the knee,
and bruising hun badly in other places.
His team ran away when the earth fell.
Horton Headlight: Frank Rice. a
breakman on the Chicago, Kansas &
Nebraska, met with painful and fatal
accident while coupling cars at Paxieo,
Kansas. He Was pulled under the cars
and killed almost instantly by catching
/ his foot on a rail that was a little sliv-
cred.
A COW owned near Salem, Jewell coun,
/ ty, has six legs. The extra pair are at
tached to the upper part Of the body
and hang loosely over the left shoulder
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the hind legs Of a calf, and are connect
ed to the shoulder by a joint IN the bones
ike ordinary limbs.
Arkansas City Republican Traveller:
/ Theodore Andrews, q youth Of Bolton
township, aged RbOut nineteen years,
is claimed by medical experts, to be
! gradually changing his color from that
Of nluletto to a very dark hue. Some
time ago small dark spots, half the size
of a penny we're noticed on his hands.
These spots have grown In size until
they almost cover thsm.
Larned CHronscope: Severed emil
grant wagons passed through going
vest. The small number of movers
wagons that has gone east this fall is
remarkable, considering the light crop
/ IN western Kansas and eastern COlora-
do. Many predicted that the tide would
be turned eastward, but on the contrary
Eve wagons have gone west for every
one that has gone east.
The Kansas railroad commissioners
have Just decided that when two roads
Cross each other they must enjoy equal
rights and privileges and the road first
built cannot dictate terms to the road
which desires to cross its track; also that
the fret built road cannot claim from the
road crossing its track any damage for
increased expense caused by the necessi-
ty Of stopping trains at the crossing.
During the recent meeting Of the
WOman's suffrage advocates at EmpOria,
Miss Foster addressed the ladies OF the
city on dress reform. During the even
ing, the gas meter got out Of order. 1t
WIS necessary to get a man to fix 1t.
he, not understanding that the lecture
was only for ladies, remained il the
lecture room after repairing the meter
The ladies were IN considerable trouble
as to what to do, when a brave one told
the gas man OF the facts and requested
his departure
Hill City heUiLIs: Wednesday, about
noon, tramp went TO the farm Of MIR.
Allen, near WALDORF, this county, when
no one but Mrs. Allen was at home, and
attempted TO take a horse. Mrs. Allen
seeing that he intended to take the horse
inteEfered and was shot three times by
the tramp, after which he ran away,
afoot, leaving the horse. Mrs. Allen
was not killed and viii probably recover
although she received a bad wound IN
the wrist, one IN the neck and another
In the top Of the head. There are about
fifty men hunting him, and if found, it is
likely he will be strung up Immediately.
Garden City Herald: A Propc Eition
is now before the council and VIII
probably be carried, TO plant shade trees
upon every street and avenue In the city.
The varieties to be used are soft maple,
box elder, Russian mulberry, cstalpa,
white ash, white elm, yellow cottonwood,
mountain ash, and black, yellow and
honey locust. The parties making the
proposition propose to set the trees out
at a Uniform distance apart OF twelve
and One-half feet, ard care for them for
two years, the city to pay a stated price
for each live tree at the end Of that time.
The scheme Is a good one and We hope
/ to see it carried through.
Garden City Herald: a fightful
accident occurred on a claim about
twenty miles ffom this city a few days